Date:	Wednesday 19 December 1945
Time:	day
Type:	Short Stirling Mk V
Owner/operator:	TCDU RAF
Registration:	PJ958
MSN:	SH1405
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Harwell, Oxfordshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:	RAF Harwell, Oxfordshire

Narrative:
PJ958 was the Shorts S.37 “Silver Stirling” converted by Shorts for civil use to Spec C.18/43 at Belfast and flown in May 1945. Not given civil registration. Delivered in July 1945 the the ATTDU (Air Transport Tactical Development Unit). Transferred later in 1945 to the TCDU (Transport Command Development Unit)

On 19 December 1945, after a late touch down at RAF Harwell, Oxfordshire, the aircraft turned off the end of the runway to avoid colliding with a bomb dump, the undercarriage collapsed, and aircraft was deemed damaged beyond economic repair. No casualties or fatalities reported.

Struck off charge and relegated to Ground Instructional Airframe. Became GIA airframe No.5797M in January 1946, later scrapped.

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4. Short Stirling: The First of the RAF Heavy Bombers By Pino Lombardi
5. Norris, Geoffrey. The Short Stirling, Aircraft in Profile Number 142: Profile Publications Ltd., 1966.
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Short Stirling Mk.V ("The Silver Stirling") in 1945

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
06-Sep-2013 15:18	JINX	Added
27-Nov-2018 19:15	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
22-Oct-2019 23:04	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
22-Oct-2019 23:08	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
22-Oct-2019 23:12	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Embed code]
05-Nov-2019 10:28	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Operator]